Grow Crystal Geode Eggs with Kids

April 4, 2023

Do you love geodes? My kids adore sparkly rocks and for this Easter craft, we tried our hand and made sparkly geode Easter eggs.  (Or maybe you could call them dragon eggs? Oooh, I love the sound of that.) Aren’t they beautiful? Directions for making them are below! How to Grow Crystal Eggs with Kids …

Free Valentine’s Agamograph Coloring Sheet Printables

February 8, 2023

Valentine’s Day is next week! My youngest and I have been making Pikachu-themed Valentines for his class. I also whipped up these super cute printable Valentine’s Agamograph coloring sheets for kids who love Valentine’s puns. Print these out, color them, accordion fold them, and then you get a fun piece of changing art. 🙂 You can …

Cute Folding Origami Greeting Cards for Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day

February 7, 2023

I saw this gorgeous reel by Clymdraws that showed a lovely folded paper greeting and was so inspired to try making one myself. This is a lovely origami craft because the folding pattern is so simple and you can use this design to make cards for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day…. or any holiday, really. Directions …

Creating Vision Boards with Kids

February 1, 2023

Have you heard of vision boards? They’re collages that you make using words and pictures to help you envision what you’d like to happen in your life. Often time we’ll talk to our kids about new year’s resolutions, but honestly, we all forget what our resolutions are by February.  Two mom friends told me about …

FREE cute printable Valentine’s Day Notes

January 25, 2023

Do you enjoy a good pun? Both my kids LOVE silly jokes and puns. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, I made these FREE, fun, pun-filled Valentine’s Day Notes for you to print out. They show off different cute animals (a bat, an axolotl, a bear, and a dinosaur), funny puns, and lines for kids to write …

FREE Lunar New Year Count and Find Sheets

January 13, 2023

If you’re looking for more Lunar New Year printables for the kids, I’m sharing these cute Count and Find sheets. They’re a great math activity for preschoolers and kindergarteners. And if you want to make the activity more challenging, you can have children write the numbers in another language!  Free Printable Lunar New Year Count …

FREE Lunar New Year Drawing Sheets

January 12, 2023

Happy early Lunar New Year! We’re looking forward to celebrating in the coming weeks. Right now I’m in the mood for all things red, gold, dragon, and bunny-related, I whipped up these free printable draw-the-other half sheets to share with you! As I mentioned before, I LOVED doing these sorts of symmetric drawing sheets as a child, …

FREE Winter Themed Count and Find Sheets

January 12, 2023

Just stopping in with another set of free count-and-find sheets! These are winter-themed, so they’re perfect for preschool or kindergarten classroom or homeschool work this time of year! FREE Count and Find Sheets for Preschoolers and Kindergarteners Grab your free winter printables here. Enjoy! If you enjoyed these free elementary school printables, you may enjoy …

FREE Draw the Other Half Symmetry Sheets

January 10, 2023

 Did you enjoy doing “Draw the other Half” Sheets as a kid?  For some reason, I really loved drawing symmetric images when I was in elementary school. There was something very satisfying about carefully creating matching mirror images. So today, I’m sharing these FREE printables with you. 🙂 Hopefully, your kids will enjoy observing the picture, …

Chinese New Year of the Rabbit Puppet Craft

January 9, 2023

 Happy Chinese New Year! In honor of the year of the rabbit, today we’re making some paper rabbit puppets. How to Make Chinese New Year Rabbit Puppets with Kids To make these cute rabbit paper puppets, follow the directions for these Easter paper rabbits that I made a while ago.  You can watch a fast …